Hard Private Equity & LBOs Practice Questions
98 free hard-difficulty Private Equity & LBOs questions, drawn live from KomFi's calibrated bank. These are the items that separate top scorers — every one carries a full explanation and trap analysis once you sign in.
- How does the Year 3 dividend recap affect the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) compared to a 'no-recap' scenario
- Under a whole-fund (European) waterfall, when would the GP receive their first carry distribution?
- Why might the 'Trade Sale' yield a higher valuation?
- If the projected exit equity value is $100.0 million, what is the required ownership percentage for the invest
- What is the effective pre-money valuation from the founders' perspective?
- If management fees are 2.0% of committed capital, fund expenses are 0.5%, and carried interest is 20% of profi
- In a DuPont decomposition of ROE, a PE-backed company shows… — What is the most likely driver of this change?
- If the exit equity is $600M, what is management's MOIC with the ratchet?
- If the total distributions are $380M and the fund called all capital at Year 0, what is the total carried inte
- If the option pool is created pre-money, what is the effective pre-money valuation for the founders?
- If the sum of discounted distributions is $250M and the sum of discounted contributions is $200M (using a publ
- If the catch-up is $50/50 (LP/GP) instead of 100% to GP, how much more total distribution is needed to complet
- What is the target's re-levered beta?
- If the base equity price was $160M, what is the final adjusted equity price?
- If the GP has 20% carry in the selling fund and chooses to roll 100% of that carry into the CV, what is the ef
- In Year 1, if SOFR is 4.5%, and the company uses its entire $20M excess cash flow to pay down the Term Loan B
- If the PE fund returned $250M in total distributions, what is the KS-PME?
- If the cost of debt is 6% and the tax rate is 25%, what is the total value of the Tax Shield over 5 years (ign
- How much 'leakage' must be deducted from the equity price at closing?
- If exit net debt is $247.3M (down from $430M at entry), how much of the $345.9M total value creation is due to
- If the Series A has broad-based weighted-average anti-dilution protection, what is the new conversion price?
- If the company exits at an equity value of $600M, what is the net payout to the management team (using the tre
- If the weighted average interest rate is 7.0%, what is the implied maximum debt capacity?
- In an American waterfall, a specific deal involving a $100M… — What is the distribution to the GP from this de
- An acquisition of a company with $50M EBITDA is priced at a 10.0× multiple. The transaction uses $200M in debt
- Which statement correctly describes the IRR impact?
- A private equity fund with $200M in contributed capital has a European-style waterfall with an 8% preferred re
- What is the equity value creation attributable specifically to multiple expansion?
- Calculate the 'Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio' (FCCR) given: EBITDA = $62M; Capex = $12M; Cash Taxes = $3M; Cash
- If the company currently has $35M in EBITDA, what is the implied exit EV/EBITDA multiple?
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